A devastated girlfriend of a man with terminal cancer has put out a heartbreaking plea for help to raise money so she can take him on "the trip of a life time".

Stephanie Holmes, who is just 18 years old, is desperately trying to raise £4,000 to take her boyfriend, Anthony Pell, 22, on a two-week trip to Florida in November, three months after he is expected to finish chemotherapy.

Stephanie, from St Austell, said she feels "useless" some days as she can't help her partner when he is in pain, but she is "proud" of how her boyfriend has handled every day since he was diagnosed.

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She said: "I want this to be the best trip of his life as we don't know how many more we will have like this.

Anthony and girlfriend Stephanie (Image: Stephanie Holmes)

"If this has taught me anything, it’s to love everyone, appreciate everything, because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow."

Anthony had a seizure in May last year and was taken to the hospital where a scan showed he had a frontal lobe tumour.

Stephanie said at the time, specialists thought it was a slow growing, grade two tumour. Over the next five months, the seizures increased and after further scans, it showed that the tumour had "dramatically changed in size" and had to be removed immediately.

Stephanie wants to raise £4,000 to take Anthony on the trip of a lifetime (Image: Stephanie Holmes)

Anthony had surgery in October and had as much of the tumour as possible removed - but the surgery had to be stopped because Antony lost movement in the right side of his body.

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Specialists told the couple that they didn't know when or if Anthony's movement in his right side would come back - but more heartbreaking news came when they were told that his brain tumour was now at grade four - which is incurable.

With his terminal diagnosis, Anthony started six weeks of intense radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and is now three months into a six month period of chemotherapy, which is set to finish in August.

Stephanie said: "It has been very difficult for Anthony and his family but we are proud of every day of how far he has come."